Kes looked up at Anara’s chest and swallowed, feeling Anara’s desire so easily become her own as well, and it made all her other thoughts go away. Kes sat up with her wife in her lap, taking her in her arms and kissing her long minutes that seemed timeless… skin on skin, two minds in two bodies all at once in a way Kes had no words at all for. One of Kes’s hands in Anara’s long, curly dark red hair… thoughts of how her hair shone in the sun, how warm it felt sun-warmed when Kes had ran her hands though it then… memory and present reality feeling like they occupied the same moment. Then her hand came to her wife’s cheek and her fingers slipped up to her ear, her thumb tracing the top ridge of it and she stilled and their kiss slowed as confusion and disorientation took hold. Her ears, she blinked, they blinked, they met gazes again and realized what was going on, working together to work out and untangle two sets of sensory feedback. Breathing relaxed and the disorientation went away steadily. They’d never had two sets of working eyes before, never been so deeply connected before in the waking world. It had made them both lose track of who they were and which body belonged to whom. Kes had touched her own ears through Anara’s body and felt like they’d belonged to Anara. It had startled both of them enough to destabilize the harmony they’d had between them.

”That wasn’t too pleasant, was it?” Kes spoke. Smiling a little.

”We just need to get used to this, that’s all.” Anara replied, not wanting to even entertain the idea of giving up any of the connection they shared. Kes could feel how sacred she held that feeling, how much she never wanted to be parted from her. To Anara, Kes could tell, what had grown between them was everything she ever could want in life, everything she’d never known to wish for… The idea that it could be taken away scared her. It… It scared Kes too, she realized. ”…I can see you.” Anara spoke, her voice full of awe and reverence and not-quite yet belief that it was true. She wondered if they were still dreaming somehow.